This volume offers new insights into revolutionary Cuba’s global influence by shifting the focus from high-level political leaders to overlooked dimensions such as everyday lives, family dynamics, and notions of gender and sexuality.
Caribbean Crossroads: Race, Identity, and Freedom Struggles
Edited by Lillian Guerra, Devyn Spence Benson, April Mayes, and Solsiree del MoralSeries Description:
More than any other region of the Americas, the Caribbean has been continuously defined by the push and pull between global white supremacy and Black liberation, colonial and anticolonial impulses, and the struggle for freedom against externally imposed economies and political systems. This series proposes to focus on these varied and contradictory histories of the region with a particular focus on Cuba, Puerto Rico, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and their transnational ties. Importantly, books will explore the Caribbean as a racialized space and will not be afraid to name the ways whiteness and Blackness work in the region. We are dedicated to publishing projects based on fieldwork in Caribbean libraries, archives, homes, and streets that reflect local “Caribbean from within” experiences and viewpoints. Thus, books about Caribbean history, broadly defined, which may include some literature and anthropology, are welcome.
For more Information:
Lillian Guerra
Professor, University of Florida
lillian.guerra@ufl.edu
Devyn Spence Benson
Associate Professor, University of Kentucky
devyn.benson@uky.edu
April Mayes
Professor, Pomona College
april.mayes@pomona.edu
Solsiree del Moral
Professor, Amherst College
sdelmoral@amherst.edu
There are 3 books in this series.
Please note that while you may order forthcoming books at any time, they will not be available for shipment until shortly before publication date
This book explores how northeastern Cuba became a hub of international solidarity and transnational movements in the 1920s and 1930s, showing how the Oriente Province emerged as a focal point for global visions of resistance.
In this book, Raquel Otheguy argues that Afro-descended teachers and activists were central to the development of a national education system in Cuba and influenced the trajectory of public school systems in the broader Americas.